inspire-indiana Chapter 183 Everyone Wants Those Two Tanks
Chapter 183 Everyone Wants Those Two Tanks
"Comrade Xiao Song, please don't misunderstand me. I don't want to expose your relative's affairs and have someone arrest and try him. It's just that the army is very short of tanks right now. Even old tanks are very important to us. I want to go find your relative and ask him for those two tanks...
Of course it's not for nothing, she's your relative, and you have such a relationship with Lao Fu, I will let our military sub-district allocate funds to buy it. "Qian Jingdong saw her frowning, fearing that she would misunderstand, and hurriedly explained.
Tanks are very important but scarce weapons. During World War II, famous top powers already had the ability to mass-produce tanks, producing tens of thousands of tanks in a few years, such as Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
However, China is relatively backward, and its production capacity in all aspects is very poor, especially its weapons production capacity. The production capacity of important weapons, such as tanks and aircraft, is very, very low.
Although we have been trying hard to catch up since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are only more than 200 tanks in the country today, which shows how scarce and in short supply tanks are.
Lao Fu's regiment was a famous ace regiment, but it only had twelve tanks, while his own military sub-district did not even have a single tank.
He has always wanted to get tanks, but there are too few of them. Even though he has used all kinds of connections, he has not been able to get a single tank. His superiors told him to wait, as the military factory will produce a batch of ten tanks by the end of the year. These tanks will then be allocated to the most elite tank division. He would then ask the tank division to give him three of the old tanks so that he could allocate them to their military sub-district.
He wanted all ten, but the higher-ups said that too many troops wanted tanks, so they couldn't give them all to him and had to share some with other troops.
I have used so many connections, but I still have to wait until the end of the year to get the three old tanks. It's really depressing. I didn't expect to learn from Song Cenyue that his relative has hidden two tanks. These are huge treasures and I must get them.
At this time, the cost of a new tank is 350 million. Yes, 350 million, which can buy dozens of cars.
The price of a car is already sky-high in the eyes of ordinary people, but the price of a tank is dozens of times that of a car. Every time he thinks of the cost of a tank, even someone like him who grew up in a wealthy family will be shocked and frightened.
The most terrifying thing is that even if you have so much money, you can't buy it. This is one of the country's most important strategic weapons. No matter how much money you give, they will not sell it to you. Other countries will not sell it to China, so China can only rely on making it on its own.
So now that Song Cenyue's relatives have two tanks, they must get them no matter what.
However, their military sub-district is not that rich, and if they allocate too much money at once, it will arouse the discovery and suspicion of the higher-ups. They definitely cannot buy the tank for Song Cenyue’s relative according to the cost, and can only give him tens of thousands.
I think tens of thousands is a very, very large amount of money for ordinary people, and Song Cenyue's relative has such a sensitive identity, he shouldn't think it's too little and will sell it.
"Qian Jingdong is such a quick guy! He actually got there first and tried to steal the tank hidden by your girlfriend's relative! I want it too." Lu Junzhe on the other end of the phone frowned and looked depressed when he heard what Qian Jingdong said to Song Cenyue.
What kind of treasure is a tank? To soldiers and the army, it is more important and more attractive than a mountain of gold. It is the greatest treasure. When he heard Song Cenyue say that her relative had hidden two tanks, he was so excited and happy that he immediately thought about getting them. However, he didn't expect that Qian Jingdong was also eyeing these two tanks and took the initiative.
Fu Weihao also wanted one. After all, tanks were such important and precious treasures. Even though their regiment already had twelve tanks, there was no such thing as too few tanks. The more the better. The more they had, the more they could enhance the combat effectiveness of their regiment, making their army stronger and better able to defend their country.
But he was a little worried that his girlfriend would not agree. He didn't want them to go to her relatives and disrupt his peaceful life. He was also afraid that her relatives would not agree.
The other party was unwilling to sell the tank and wanted to keep it. It was obvious that he treasured the tank very much and was a tank enthusiast, and a very fanatical one at that. Otherwise, he would not have been hiding the tank secretly. If he was discovered and had such an identity, he would surely die.
With the other party's identity, it would have been no problem to rob him. It would have been good enough if he was not reported and arrested. The country was so short of tanks, and tanks were such important strategic weapons and so important to the country and the people. Yet he dared to keep them for himself and not hand them over.
But he is his girlfriend's relative, and his girlfriend told him the secret between her and her relatives because she wanted to help him. He cannot do anything to let her down, so he can only find a way to persuade his girlfriend, and then find a way to persuade her relatives to sell the tank to them.
There is no meaning and value in leaving the tank in the hands of the target's relatives. It is better to give it to them so that they can strengthen the army, defend the country, and prevent the people of the country from being bullied and ravaged by foreign countries like before liberation. At the same time, he can also get a large sum of money and live a good life. It is the best of both worlds.
Just as Fu Weihao was about to tell his partner what he was thinking, he heard Qian Jingdong's voice coming from the microphone: "Old Fu, Old Lu, you can't compete with me. You are not allowed to think about tanks. Your regiment has twelve tanks. You already have so many tanks. Don't think about tanks anymore. Just give us the two tanks of Comrade Xiao Song's relatives...
Our military sub-district doesn’t even have a single tank, which is really pitiful… You should know that people should not be too greedy, and should not be greedy. "
When Qian Jingdong heard what Lu Junzhe said over the microphone, he knew that he had also set his eyes on the two tanks of Song Cenyue's relatives. Tanks were real treasures. If Lu Junzhe had his eyes on them, then Fu Weihao must have been very excited as well and had his eyes on them too. Afraid that they would snatch them from him, he quickly shouted loudly into the microphone in Song Cenyue's hand.
"Old Fu, tell Old Qian that he didn't say that... Forget it, you're not a good talker, so I'll talk to him. Give me the phone." Lu Junzhe didn't intend to give up after hearing Qian Jingdong's words, and shouted.
Why are they still fighting? Song Cenyue frowned. She never thought that the two tanks she had fabricated would cause them to fight.
However, considering the important value of tanks, the country's ability to manufacture tanks at that time, and how scarce and precious tanks are, we can understand them.
"Don't argue!" Song Cenyue said to stop them. "My relative and his two tanks are no longer with us. My relative passed away last year. His two tanks were German-style and were bought by the Kuomintang before World War II. They are several decades old.
Moreover, it was already old when it was bought from Germany. Although he had been taking good care of it, it still broke down frequently. Although he had been taking me to repair it, it always broke down again not long after it was repaired. In the end, it was completely beyond repair and became completely scrap metal...
Before he died, he was afraid that keeping those two scrapped tanks would bring me trouble and disaster, and that one day someone would find out and trace it back to me and him. He died, but I am still alive, and I am miserable...
So he and I went to great lengths to get the tank to the cliff, then pushed the tank off the cliff into the sea, destroying all traces so that no one would ever find it again.
If you don't believe me and think I'm lying, you can check it out." Song Cenyue said, lying is really not good, because in order to cover up the previous lie, you can only continue to make up lies, and the lies are like a snowball that keeps getting bigger and bigger.
But there was no other way. In order to cover up the lie he had told earlier, to get rid of the "two tanks", to stop them from staring at the "two tanks" and trying to get them, and to stop them from thinking about looking for "relatives", he had to bite the bullet and make up the story.
I hope they will believe it, but I can't hear any loopholes in what I said. I also told them that if they don't believe it, they can go check it out. They should believe it. They will think that if I am lying to them, I won't dare let them check it out.